Tora Augestad, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra – Portraying Passion: Works By Weill, Paus & Ives (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:12:45 minutes | 730 MB | Genre: Classical
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When Tora Augestad releases a musical portrait together with the Oslo Philharmonic, there’s nothing less than Kurt Weill, Marcus Paus, and Charles Ives on the menu. Augestad’s repertoire for “Portraying Passion” takes the musical qualities of modernist, individualistic composers and places them squarely within the context of the 21st century.
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Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds – Nørgård: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 6 (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 54:22 minutes | 834 MB | Genre: Classical
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“I feel each of my symphonies is a whole continent in itself,” the Danish composer Per Nørgård (b. 1932) has said. His music stems from an insatiable urge to explore the phe no mena of the world and the possibilities of music, and his eight symphonies stand as milestones along the course of six decades. This recording with the Oslo Philharmonic conducted by John Storgårds presents Per Nørgård’s Second Symphony, in which the composer unfolds his famous ‘infinity principle’ euphorically and almost psychedelically, and his Sixth Symphony, in which the mature composer proves more exploratory and playful than ever.
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Klaus Mäkelä, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra – Sibelius: Complete Symphonies (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 04:25:05 minutes | 4,55 GB | Genre: Classical
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The Chief Conductor of Oslo Philharmonic and Music Director of Orchestre de Paris, Klaus Mäkelä announces his debut album; the complete Sibelius symphonies plus the fragments of the unfinished 8th and his last symphonic poem Tapiola. The orchestra has been performing the music of Jean Sibelius for over 100 years, with the composer himself conducting three concerts of his music in 1921. Together they form the Scandinivian Trio.
“Sibelius’ music is in Mäkelä’s DNA and it was exciting to watch him bring a fresh perspective to the work.” – Bachtrack
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Eldbjørg Hemsing, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Tan Dun – Tan Dun: Fire Ritual (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:37 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Classical
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The first encounter between Chinese composer Tan Dun and Norwegian violinist Eldbjørg Hemsing took place in 2010 during the Shanghai World Expo, when Hemsing premièred Tan’s Love Concerto. Both have strong roots in the traditional music of their native countries, and out of this meeting between traditions a fruitful collaboration has developed which also involves an investigation of the music that happens here and now. In Hemsing’s words, the encounter ‘opened up my musical horizons’ and she has since performed a number of the composer’s works involving the violin. Fire Ritual, the concerto that lends its name to the present album, was composed with Hemsing in mind. It exists in a version for violin and Chinese traditional orchestra, as well as the one recorded here, which Hemsing and the Oslo Philharmonic premièred in September 2018, conducted by the composer. For Eldbjørg Hemsing, Tan Dun has also created the concerto that opens the disc, Rhapsody and Fantasia, based on earlier works. Both works reflect the composer’s memories of growing up barefoot in the countryside, and his later experiences of bringing together the shamanistic and spiritual world of his childhood with the discipline and philosophy of Peking Opera. Or in the composers own words: ‘a reflection of those early memories of my youth, but through the lens of my current musical soundscape’.
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Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra – Walton: Viola Concerto & Sinding: Suite In Alten Still (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 41:28 minutes | 419 MB | Genre: Classical
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Viola player Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad is the latest talent to emerge from a new, golden generation of Scandinavian musicians. He made his debut with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Eivind Aadland in 2013, and has since been travelling all around the world, performing in prestigious festivals and concert venues; he is a national favourite.
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Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra & Vasily Petrenko – Richard Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64 / Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:15:42 minutes | 2,49 GB | Genre: Classical
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Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and Vasily Petrenko offer here the third and final release in a series of recordings of Richard Strauss’s orchestral music. On this CD the listener is presented with the tone poems “Eine Alpensinfonie” and “Tod und Verklärung”, works that long have been part of the Oslo Philharmonic’s repertoire.
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Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra & Vasily Petrenko – Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 – Myaskovsky: Symphony No. 21 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:02:32 minutes | 2,05 GB | Genre: Classical
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Prokofiev described his Fifth Symphony, his first composition in this genre for sixteen years, as the culmination of an entire period in my work. I conceived it as a symphony on the grandeur of the human spirit. He regarded this symphony, composed in the summer of 1944, as his finest work. Nikolai Myaskovsky (18811950) was certainly one of the most prolific symphonic composers of the twentieth century. He was born in Novo-Georgievsk, which was then part of the Polish territories of the Tsarist empire. He took private tuition with Gliere in Moscow, then, having decided to devote himself to composition, studied with Rimsky-Korsakov and Lyadov at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, while establishing what would prove to be a life-long friendship with Prokofiev. His earliest composition was a group of piano preludes (1896-8) but it was not until 1908 that he wrote the first of his twenty-seven symphonies.
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Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko – Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34, Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36 & Scheherazade, Op. 35 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:14:55 minutes | 2,41 GB | Genre: Classical
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The cultural and artistic exchanges between France and Russia have long been exciting, despite this great back-and-forth movement being stopped dead in its tracks by the Soviet Union. Ballets born in the court of Louis XIV would make their way to St. Petersburg and return to France with the great scores of Tchaikovsky and his successors, restoring strength and vigor to the dance.
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